Highlife Name given to any West African popular music
Primarily an Anglophone music - territories of former British West Africa Sierra
Leonne, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, (French speaking Benin and Togo )
High Life is a synergetic product by which it is a music developed out of local and
foreign influences but is greater than the sum of each of those influences.
Roots in Sierra Leone
Indigenous rhythms of osibisaba (Fante), ashiko (Sierra Leone), dagomba (Liberian guitar
style). and gombe (from Sierre Leone via Jamaican Maroons
European Foxtrots, waltzes and polkas
Caribbean kaiso
Using European and African Instruments
The Army Concert Party
Kru-Sailors brought - Harmonica, Button Accordian and Guitar.